Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 2 | The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality . |
| 3 | Some of the clans , such as the Campbells of Argyll , were staunchly Whig , others were divided amongst themselves , and many were not really committed strongly one way or the other . |
| 4 | Also it 's a role that tends to creep up on people — you do n't suddenly wake up one morning and find you are a carer . |
| 5 | ‘ A double agent can be tripled ’ — or , presumably by the same token , quadrupled or quintupled — since he does n't necessarily know where one stage ends and the next begins , particularly in the case of a Russian who has left the pre-Glasnost USSR not for reasons of ideology , but for the chance to work out his physical theories on an up-to-date computer . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't just wake up one morning and say ‘ Oh gee , I ca n't get in for a facial — I might as well have a baby ’ . ’ |
| 7 | You ca n't just come along one day and tell me who I 'll marry ! |